degenerate

Meaning

Adj

1. Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
2. Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
3. Having lost functionality in general.
4. Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
5. Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
6. Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
7. Having the same quantum energy level.

Noun

One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
2. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

Synonyms

deteriorate

corrupt

depraved

debauched

immoral

libertine

dissolute

deviant

profligate

deteriorated

worsen

degraded

degrade

riotous

decline

deviate

drop

crash

decay

degeneracy

degradation

devolve

dissipated

dwindle

fast

get worse

go bad

metamorphosis

monster

pervert

regress

rot

spoil

discrepant

become wild

decadent

aberrant

go to ruin

ebb

effete

fade

fall back

lapse into

become worse

catagenesis

change

inferior

atypical

be decadent

get worse in quality

Translations

dégénérer

dégénéré

degenerar

degenereren

ontaarden

degenerare

ausarten

degenerat

degenerieren

entarten

degenerado

verbasteren

degenerado

s’abâtardir

degenere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.